Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from August 2007

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from August 2007

Rape, prostitution and consent.
August 1, 2007... Sex workers are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault. However, until recently, there were significant barriers to the prosecution of those who raped sex workers. Prostitutes were seen as 'commonly' available to men, as always consenting to...

Civil litigation against police in Australia: exploring its extent, nature and implications for accountability.
August 1, 2007... Much recent policing reform has been concerned with strengthening organisational and individual accountability through complaints, discipline systems and external oversight. Civil litigation against police has largely been ignored as an...

Parental shaming and adolescent delinquency: a partial test of reintegrative shaming theory.
August 1, 2007... The past decade has seen an increase in the application of Braithwaite's reintegrative shaming theory as a framework for restorative justice programs. However, to date the theory has received little empirical attention. The current study set...

Does Australia need a specific institution to correct wrongful convictions?
August 1, 2007... In recent years, hundreds of people have been exonerated overseas after demonstrating that they were wrongly convicted of crimes for which they spent many years in prison, and these are only the ones uncovered to date. Australia has its own...

The Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) pilot program: court outcomes and recidivism.
August 1, 2007... Diversion programs for drug offenders have proliferated in the last decade in the belief that treatment of underlying drug use will decrease an individual's criminal activity. The NSW Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) program...

Criminal justice education, employment destinations, and graduate satisfaction.(Australia)
August 1, 2007... The article addresses the lack of sound empirical research both overseas and especially in Australia on the outcomes of criminal justice education. The very limited research on graduate outcomes is potentially problematic at a time when...

Third Party Policing.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Third Party Policing Lorraine Mazerolle and Janet Ransley (2005) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 261 pp, ISBN 13-978-0-521-82783-6 (hb), 978-0-521-53507-6 (ppb) Over the last 3 decades, public policing in democratic societies has...

The History of Australian Corrections.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The History of Australian Corrections S. O'Toole. (2006) UNSW Press, Sydney, pp 236, ISBN 0 86840 915 4 Writing book reviews for scholarly journals is generally an enjoyable and rewarding experience, but sometimes it is also challenging....

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations Susan Ehrlich Martin and Nancy C. Jurik (2007) Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, USA. 281 pp, ISBN 1-4129-2720-X or 978-1-4129-2720-8 (cloth) The...

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Pusher Myths: Re-situating the Drug Dealer.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Pusher Myths: Re-situating the Drug Dealer Ross Coomber (2006) Free Association Books, United Kingdom, 207pp, ISBN 1853439487 As the title suggests, the authors purpose in writing this book...

The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Age.(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Age Ball, Kirstie and Webster, Frank (eds.) (2003) Pluto Press, London, 176pp. ISBN 0 7453 1995 5 (hb) ISBN 0 7453 1994 7 (ppb) Over the last years and...